Poroshenko stressed during the conversation that a peace plan is the only way to handle the situation in Ukraine and find a peaceful solution to the conflict.
“Petro Poroshenko stressed that safety of civilians, in particular the citizens of Donetsk and Luhansk, remains an absolute priority throughout the course of the anti-terrorist operation. The president is convinced that a peace plan is the only way to restore peace in Donbas and stability in Ukraine,” the statement read.
Since mid-April, the authorities in Kiev have been conducting a special operation to suppress the growing independence movement in the country’s eastern regions, the citizens of which revolted against the leadership that came to power following a regime change in February.
According to the UN estimates, the Kiev-backed operation has already took the lives of more than 1,100 civilians and injured more than 3,400. The recent data by the Russian authorities shows that since the beginning of the conflict more than 730,000 Ukrainian citizens fled their country and crossed into Russia.
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Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has called on NATO and the European Union to provide military support for Ukrainian troops fighting pro-Russian separatists and said the Western military alliance needed to come up with a new strategy towards Kiev...
The four-month conflict in eastern Ukraine has reached a critical phase and a separatist leader said today that Ukrainian rebels were receiving new military equipment and troops trained in Russia, and would launch a major counter-offensive against government forces. Klimkin told German radio station Deutschlandfunk the EU and NATO needed to consider what they could and would do if rules get broken, adding that this was the case when Moscow annexed Ukraine's Crimea peninsula in March and was also true of Russia's actions in Donetsk and Luhansk now...............................................http://www.ellanodikis.net/2014/08/ukraine-foreign-minister-calls-on-nato.html
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Rebels down Ukrainian warplane as military equipment ‘arrives from Russia’...
ReplyDeletePro-Russian separatists shot down a Ukrainian warplane in eastern Ukraine overnight into Sunday, a military spokesman said, as Moscow denied rebel claims that it had sent military equipment across the border.
Local authorities said that at least 10 civilians were killed in the rebel-held city of Donetsk as a fresh round of fighting broke out, involving artillery and mortars, after the insurgents claimed they were receiving fresh stocks of heavy military equipment from Russia and 1,200 fighters.
Moscow sternly denied sending such equipment.
"We have repeatedly said that no equipment is being sent there," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Govorit Moskva radio, but did not mention the rebels' additional claim of receiving a fresh injection of troops trained "on Russian territory"......................http://www.france24.com/en/20140817-rebels-shoot-down-ukraine-warplane-military-arrives-russia/
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Russian and Ukrainian customs officials and border guards have agreed on inspecting the first group of trucks with humanitarian aid for residents of war-torn eastern Ukraine, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) reported on Sunday.....
ReplyDelete“Border and customs officials from Russia and Ukraine have agreed to inspect the first group of Russian convoy trucks shortly. We’ll observe,” the Geneva-based organization said in a statement posted on its website.
The Red Cross earlier reported Russia and Ukraine had agreed customs and inspection procedures for the Russian humanitarian aid convoy.
The first 16 trucks loaded with Russia’s humanitarian aid for east Ukraine residents have already arrived at the Donetsk checkpoint in the southern Russian Rostov Region.......................http://en.itar-tass.com/world/745388
Ukraine says rebels shoot down fighter jet....
ReplyDeleteKIEV, Ukraine: Separatist rebels in the east have shot down a Ukrainian fighter plane, a Ukrainian military spokesman said on Sunday.
Oleksiy Dmitrashkovsky said that the plane was shot down over the Luhansk region after launching an attack on rebels. The pilot ejected and was taken to a secure place, he said.
Further details about the incident or the condition of the pilot were not immediately available..................http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/europe/Ukraine-says-rebels-shoot-down-fighter-jet/articleshow/40331885.cms
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Konvoi mit Raktenwerfern: Russische Armeefahrzeuge dringen in Ukraine ein...
ReplyDeleteVor dem Krisengipfel zum Ukraine-Konflikt in Berlin hat Russland nach Angaben Kiews erneut einen Militärkonvoi in die Ostukraine geschickt. Drei Raketenwerfer seien in das von den Separatisten kontrollierte Gebiet eingedrungen, teilte das ukrainische Militär mit. In der Region Lugansk schossen die Separatisten nach Angaben Kiews erneut einen Kampfjet der Regierungstruppen ab. Der Streit um den russischen Hilfskonvoi wurde unterdessen beigelegt.....................http://www.n24.de/n24/Nachrichten/Politik/d/5247192/russische-armeefahrzeuge-dringen-in-ukraine-ein.html
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Steinmeier warnt vor Eskalation....
ReplyDeleteBundesaußenminister Frank-Walter Steinmeier hat vor einer direkten Konfrontation der ukrainischen und russischen Streitkräfte im Osten der Ukraine gewarnt. "Gerade die Nachrichten vom heutigen Tage zeigen, dass es noch schlimmer werden könnte", sagte Steinmeier. Er empfängt zur Stunde die Außenminister Frankreichs, Russlands und der Ukraine, Laurent Fabius, Sergej Lawrow und Pawlo Klimkin.
Ein Thema ist die Lieferung von Hilfsgütern in das Krisengebiet. Im Raum stehen aber vor allem die Vorwürfe der ukrainischen Seite, russische Militärfahrzeuge seien mehrfach auf ukrainisches Territorium vorgedrungen..................http://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/ukraine-505.html
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